About me
I am a third year Ph.D student in ViVoNets Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at University of California, Santa Barbara. My advisor is Prof. Jerry D. Gibson. My research interests are in video compression and communications in wireless networks, especially multiple description video coding, and error-resilient video coding. I received both B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, China in 2004 and 2006, respectively.
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (09/2006-present)
PhD Candidate, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, GPA 4.0/4.0
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China(09/2004-07/2006)
Master of Engineering in Electronic Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (09/2000-07/2004)
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering
Research
Video and Voice over Networks (ViVoNets) Group, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Assistant, supervised by Professor Jerry D. Gibson, 04/2007-present
- Studied video communications over wireless networks with burst losses. Proposed an extended ROPE algorithm to accurately estimate the overall distortion accounting for both random and burst losses, and applied it for the rate-distortion (RD)-based optimal mode selection.
- Studied multiple description video coding with path diversity for error-resilient video transmission. Proposed the macroblock(MB)-based error concealment methods for multiple state video coding (MSVC) by exploring the information from both descriptions to achieve better recovery.
- Designed a RD-based optimal mode selection method for MSVC. Estimated the end-to-end distortion for MSVC by considering the network conditions, error propagation and multiple state recovery, and used it to select the optimal coding mode..
STMicroelectronics China R&D Center, Shenzhen, China
Graduate Intern, Wireless and Embedded System Team, 07/2005-05/2006
- Worked on a Wireless Trunked Radio System project. Implemented the TETRA protocol using C. Ported the ucLinux kernel to ARM946ES core and improved the real time features. Developed the application program based on QT/Embedded.
Communication and Information System Laboratory, Tsinghua University, China
Research Assistant, research group for 4G wireless communication system, 02/2004-06/2006
- Proposed the Two Dimension Complementary Sequence in MC-CDMA system and analyze its performance. Simulated the performance of the sequences with Three Zero Correlation Windows.
Publications
- Yiting LIAO and Jerry D. Gibson, Rate-distortion Based Mode Selection for Video Coding over Wireless Networks with Burst Losses, to appear in the 17th international Packet Video Workshop (PV 2009).
- Yiting LIAO and Jerry D. Gibson, Enhanced Error Resilience of Video Communications for Burst Losses Using an Extended ROPE Algorithm, to appear in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009.
- Yiting LIAO and Jerry D. Gibson. Refined Error Concealment for Multiple State Video Coding over Ad Hoc Networks, in the 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October, 2008. (Nominated for the best student paper award)
- Yiting LIAO, Chao ZHANG, Xiaokang LIN, T-ZCZ Keying for Infrared Wireless Communications, in Proc. of SPIE, vol.5640, January 2005, pp. 524-532
- Yiting LIAO, Chao ZHANG, Xiaokang LIN, M-ary Modulation in Indoor Infrared Communication Systems Enhanced by ZCZ Sequences, in Proc. of SPIE, vol.5640, January 2005, pp. 497-503
- Chao ZHANG, Hancheng GAO, Yiting LIAO, Xiaokang LIN and Mitsutoshi HATORI, Iterative Method for Constructing Complete Complementary Sequences with Lengths of 2~mN, in Journal of Tsinghua Science and Technology, Oct. 2005.
- Yi-ting LIAO, Jin-guo QUAN, Xiao-kang LIN. Operation System Design based on uCLinux for TETRA handset, in Micro-Computer Information (In Chinese), February 2007.
Awards and Honors
- Finalist for Best Student Paper Award, Asilomar 2008.
- First Prize Scholarship for Excellent Graduate Student of Tsinghua University, 2005.
- Third Prize of National Semiconductor's Analog Technology and Application Contest (a portable digital oscilloscope based on USB2.0.), 2004.
- Excellent B.S. Thesis Award of Tsinghua Univ., 2004 (New Sequence Design and Performance Simulation in the Fourth Generation Wireless Communication System).
- Winner Prize of National Semiconductor's Temperature Sensor Design Contest, 2001.
- Second Prize in Chinese National Math Olympic Competition, 1999.
- Second Prize in Chinese National Information (Computer) Olympic Competition, 1998, 1999.